Michigan's New Public Threat Alert System Can Send Notifications To Your Phone, Interrupt Broadcasts
Building upon the national success of the AMBER Alert system, the state of Michigan now has its own version for what state police call “public threats.” Michigan’s new alert system can be used in cases where there is a public threat, which is defined as “a clear, present, persistent, ongoing and random threat to public safety. A public threat includes, but is not limited to, an act of terrorism, an unresolved mass shooting or an unresolved mass shooting spree.” It works similar to how an AMB...